US5293013A - Switching cable - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a cable for use in connecting a computer to a peripheral equipment or the like.
- the sending terminal and the receiving terminal are mutually reversed to exchange data, which is a reverse connection.
- a switching cable for connecting a peripheral machine or a computer to another computer, the switching cable comprising: a pair of connectors each having a plurality of pins; a plurality of wires each adapted to connect the individual pins of one of the connectors with the individual pins of the other connector; and a switching device mounted on at least one of the connectors for a switching over the connecting state of the wires.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a switching cable according to one embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a modified switching cable according to another embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram showing the manner in which wires of the switching cable are to be selectively connected.
- FIG. 1 shows a switching cable 1 of the first embodiment.
- the switching cable 1 has a pair of opposite connectors 2, 3; on one connector 2, a rotary switch 4 serving as a switching device is mounted for selectively switching over the connection of internal wires between straight (S) and reverse (R) connections.
- FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram showing the manner in which the internal wires of the switching cable 1 are to be selectively connected.
- Each connector of this switching cable 1 is composed of 25 pins; five sets of pins, i.e., Nos. 2 and 3, Nos. 4 and 5, Nos. 6 and 20, Nos. 17 and 24, and Nos. 7 and 8 are switched over between straight connection (S) and reverse connection (R) by the rotary switch 4, which includes nine circuits and two contact points.
- the switching device should by no means be limited to the rotary switch 4, and may be a slide switch 5 as shown in FIG. 2.
- the switching device may be mounted on each of the opposite connectors.
- the switching cable of this invention can be switched over between straight connection and reverse connection according to the use, it is free from the conventional problem that a wrong cable might be taken out of two kinds of cables, and it is also possible to reduce the number of goods in stock in a shop to half.
- the switching cable 1 is switched over to the straight connection (S). In other words, with some pins of one connector directly connected to the corresponding pins of the other, the sending terminal of one computer is connected to the sending terminal of the other or the receiving terminal of one computer is connected to the receiving terminal of the other.
- the switching cable 1 is used as switched over to the reverse connection (R). Namely the state of connection of the individual pins between a pair, of companion connectors is switched over, whereby the sending terminal of one computer is directly connected to the receiving terminal of the other via the switching cable 1.
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